Depends on your standards. Looks disgusting to me.
Health-wise, you have a cup of sugar, a pouch of probably sugar, a PB and sugar on starch slab next to a pile of salty starch and a stick of salt water, with a cheese stick on the side. With not much protein or fibre that’s a lot of food to leave you hungry soon after, and not a lot of nutritional value.
Taste-wise, eeugh, but that’s just personal preference.
the only think unhealthy here is the cheesestick, your fascination with protein is interesting, can you elaborate? The majority of Americans get more than triple the recommended protein.
As a professional chef, I would rate this lunch better than what most people eat.
Not shitty food porn
It’s wild. Idk how that person can look at Peanut Butter and cheese and then claim it lacks substantial protein. Rofl
Not much protein? Excuse me what? There’s literally peanut butter and cheese. What in the world are you talking about?
By proportion. It’s mostly carbs.
Sure but still a decent amount of protein. Peanut butter is dense as fuck.
This economical, practical, and flavorful. It’s healthy enough (assuming the other 2 meals pack in some of the missing stuff like whole fiber veggies). Good job!
If you’re a student and/or poor, yes. Otherwise, this is fine, but you can do better.
If you are poor, you should definitely not be buying individual servings of applesauce (or most things). Of course, this is also true if you are not poor.
Maybe it came from a food pantry or neighborhood box.
It’s definitely not good for students. It might be what a student ends up eating because of lack of resources needed to eat better, but anyone who is engaged in learning and needs their brain to perform well isn’t going to get what they need from this.
Perfectly fine, it’s food. Food is always an acceptable form of lunch.
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How?
Your indirect implication, that this “always” acceptable for lunch.
This is something you give a diabetic who’s low on sugar.
Not something you’d eat for sustenance, especially in long term. It might technically be food, but I wouldn’t call it a meal.
Ahhh each to their own.
Noot reaally though.
This isn’t a matter of preference, but simple nutritional facts.
This is gourmet hospital food 😂
Seems fine aside from the applesauce packaging being unnecessarily wasteful.
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No. This is a large unhealthy snack.
I mean, its food, I’d eat it.
Depending on the source the Jalapeño chips could be not so great. Often they are produced with seed oils which are super high in Omega 6, but without a balanced diet to counteract that with the other omegas this could lead to internal inflammation over time. This is (as far as I’m aware) why eating processed foods makes you feel terrible.
The white American bread is basically pure sugar, with very little gluten, so that’s not great.
Peanut butter is not very high in protein, and most American sources are super high in sugar. It does contain lots of fat though, hopefully peanut oil but probably sunflower seed oil, see above for why that’s not great.
Cucumber Pickles are nearly devoid of nutrition, but if they’re live fermented and not brined they’re good for digestion, paired with this much sugar though expect some major gas and probably a trip to the bathroom within half an hour.
The mozz stick is a good source of protein.
All in all, 3/10. Poorly balanced but delicious and loaded with carbs for energy. Will feel bloated afterwards.
For a kid; that isn’t a whole lot of calories. Unless your friend is small and has a low metabolism or doesn’t do a whole lot.
Looks like a good amount of calories to me, the two fruitdrinks alone would make up for most of it. The problem is that most of it comes in the form of sugar and carbohydrates. And there is a worryingly lack of fibre, which means that whoever eats that will likely get hungry again in a short while and crave “snacks” and other unnecessary calories.
Ehh. Not a huge fan of both applesauce AND pear juice. Lots of added sugar. At a minimum, I would replace the applesauce with apple slices or the pear juice with water.
If it’s in the budget, some carrots would make this better. They’re fairly inexpensive if you get whole carrots and process them how you’d like. I like to buy a lot of them, cut them as part of meal prep, and eat/use them over the week.
The sandwich is fine, especially if this person doesn’t typically eat a large lunch. I wouldn’t have thought it was out of place if that was a whole sandwich, though.
It’s better than my lunch today
This is a pretty average lunch if ever I saw one.
As someone who works for a living, I must agree.
Honestly, if I opened my lunchbox to this, I would be pretty happy. Though, I’d wonder where the rest of the PBJ went?
Whatever, food!
Problem being - average is pretty shit
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Vegetarian so yese
